EP2640127B1 - Augmentation de la puissance de transmission en liaison montante proactive dans de petites cellules lors des transferts sortants - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the transmit power of a mobile station served by a small cell.
- Heterogeneous Networks are now being deployed, where cells of smaller footprint size (so-called pico, metro or micro cells) are embedded within the coverage area of larger umbrella cells (so-called macro cells), primarily to provide increased capacity in targeted areas of data traffic concentration. HetNet try to exploit the spatial variation in user and traffic distribution to efficiently increase the overall capacity of mobile networks.
- indoor data offloading has become a focus of the industry in the recent years.
- the indoor data offloading incentive is significant firstly due to the successful penetration and the maturity of the fixed broadband technology that can be re-used for mobile network backhauling, and secondly because of the substantial cellular network resources that are expended on penetrating buildings.
- One attractive solution to offload indoor users' traffic is to deploy femto cells (or home cells). Femto cells are short-range cells operated by subscriber-owned radio access points, and provides improved indoor coverage and increased throughput to home users while off-loading traffic from expensive macro radio access onto the low-cost public Internet.
- hard handover the channel in the source cell is released and only then the channel in the target cell is engaged. Thus the connection to the source is broken before the connection to the target is made. For this reason such handovers are also known as break-before-make handovers.
- soft handover is one in which the channel in the source cell is retained and used for a while in parallel with the channel in the target cell. In this case the connection to the target is established before the connection to the source is broken, hence these handovers are called make-before-break handovers.
- WCDMA Wideband code Division Multiple Access
- the uplink inner-loop power control adjusts the User Equipment (UE) transmit power in order to keep the received uplink Signal to Noise and Interference Ratio (SNIR) on that frequency at a given SNIR target, SNIR_Target.
- the base station should estimate the SNIR SNIR_Estimate of the received uplink Dedicated Physical Control CHannel (DPCCH).
- DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control CHannel
- the base station should then generate Transmit Power Control (TPC) commands and transmit the commands once per slot (i.e., once every 0.66 ms) according to the following rule: if SNIR_Estimate > SNIR_Target then the TPC command to transmit is "0", while if SNIR_Estimate ⁇ SNIR_Target then the TPC command to transmit is "1".
- TPC Transmit Power Control
- each algorithm defines how the TPC commands ought to be interpreted and combined (when received from multiple base stations).
- algorithm 2 is more stable compared to algorithm 1 in a sense that it considers five consecutive time slots before making a judgment regarding a change of the transmit power, but is consequently slower than algorithm 1.
- the UE receives TPC commands from all the cells that it is attached to.
- the TPC combining process is very conservative in a sense that it gives precedence to the base station requiring the lowest uplink transmit power and yielding the least interference.
- the UE In hard handover, after the UE establishes its connection to the target cell, it adjusts its transmit power using the open loop power control to estimate the required transmission power for communication with the target cell.
- the UE's initial transmission consists only of the DPCCH transmission.
- the UE determines its initial DPCCH transmit power, based on the Received Signal code Power (RSCP) of the pilot channel (CPICH):
- RSCP Received Signal code Power
- CPICH pilot channel
- the test set signals a value for DPCCH_Power_offset that places the UE's initial transmission near the UE target power setting.
- the UE target power setting is the level that is set for the UE's DPCCH and Dedicated Physical Data CHannel (DPDCH) transmission.
- DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data CHannel
- the required uplink transmission power to reach the macro base station is significantly higher than the uplink power of the femto cell users. This implies that when the handover is performed, the UE needs to substantially increase its transmit power level so as to communicate with the macro cell. This abrupt and significant change of the transmit power introduces a sudden drop of the SNIR for the other femto cell user(s).
- the aforementioned closed-loop power control mechanisms assures that the other femto cell user(s) can sustain the required SNIR at the femto base station despite the changes of the radio channel such as signal fast fades due to users' mobility.
- the aforementioned algorithm 2 is used for transmit power control. Therefore, there is potentially a risk of call drops during the adaptation of the users' transmission power. Even if the call could be maintained, at least severe drop of users' QoE is expected.
- Soft handovers may be used too in future femto cells deployment.
- the UE receives TPC commands from all the cells that it is attached to.
- the TPC combining process is very conservative since it is sufficient if the user can at least communicate to one of the base stations. Again this is not a problem for traditional macro cell to macro cell handovers as the required transmission power from the edge of one cell to another cell is not varied substantially. However this is not the case when it comes to soft handovers from femto to macro cells as the user would normally need to transmit with considerably higher power to reach the macro base station.
- the TPC command coming from the femto base station during the soft handover regime would keep the user's transmission power low and therefore the user would have difficulty adapting the power quickly enough when he is fully switched to the macro cell (after the handover completes normal power control is used to adapt the transmission power of the user). Again the case is even worse if the aforementioned algorithm 2 is used for transmit power control.
- the US patent application entitled “ Mitigation of Uplink Interference from Wireless communication Device Connected to a Micro Cell”, and published on February 17, 2011 with publication number us 2011/0039561 A1 discloses a wireless communication device configured to obtain at least a portion of a power parameter of a first serving cell when connected to the first serving cell, switch the link of the wireless communication device from the first serving cell to a second serving cell, determine, based on the portion of the power parameter, a maximum acceptable transmit power of the wireless communication device for use after the wireless communication device switches its link from the first serving cell to the second serving cell, and limit a transmit power of the wireless communication device, based on the maximum acceptable transmit power, when the wireless communication device is connected to the second serving cell.
- the international patent application entitled " Power Control Setting in a Low Power Network Node” published on May 12, 2011 with publication number WO 2011/054374 A1 discloses a a mechanism for setting power control settings for uplink power control in a network element controlling a communication connection to and from a user equipment, such as a base station or an eNodeB controlling a so-called femto cell (HeNB).
- the power control parameters of a HeNB are adjusted according to the position of the femto cell with respect to the served area of the umbrella macro eNB.
- the HeNB may adjust the parameters autonomously, e.g.
- the HeNB adjusts the power control related parameters such that no UE connected to it transmits with more than a predetermined maximum power.
- a method for controlling the transmit power of a mobile station served by a small cell comprises detecting a measurement event anticipating the forthcoming fulfillment of a handover condition towards a neighboring macro cell by the mobile station, and thereupon step-wise increasing the transmit power level of the mobile station so as to reach a transmit power target when the handover condition is eventually fulfilled by the mobile station.
- a transmit power controller for controlling the transmit power of a mobile station served by a small cell is configured to detect a measurement event anticipating the forthcoming fulfillment of a handover condition towards a neighboring macro cell by the mobile station, and thereupon to step-wise increase the transmit power level of the mobile station so as to reach a transmit power target when the handover condition is eventually fulfilled by the mobile station.
- the transmit power controller preferably forms part of a radio access point configured to operate the small cell, such as a femto, pico, metro or micro base station.
- the handover condition is a condition whereby the macro cell is measured as being offset better than the small cell by a first positive handover offset, thereby yielding a reference receive signal strength or quality threshold in the small cell for handover towards the macro cell
- the measurement event is a measurement event whereby a current receive strength or quality level for the mobile station in the small cell was measured as being below a handover anticipation threshold which is the sum of the reference receive signal strength or quality threshold and a second positive anticipation offset.
- the transmit power target is for compensating for an estimated downlink path loss for the mobile station in the macro cell.
- the transmit power target is determined by measuring a receive signal strength of a reference pilot signal broadcast within the macro cell at a nominal downlink transmit power.
- the step-wise increase of the transmit power is a monotonically-decreasing function of a current receive strength or quality level for the mobile station in the small cell.
- the step-wise increase of the transmit power corresponds to a linear power increase from an initial transmit power used by the mobile station in the small cell when the measurement event is detected up to the transmit power target.
- the step-wise increase of the transmit power corresponds to a second or higher order polynomial power increase from an initial transmit power used by the mobile station in the small cell when the measurement event is detected up to the transmit power target.
- the increase of the transmit power level for the mobile station is withdrawn if no handover towards the macro cell took place for the mobile station during a handover confirmation time period triggered upon detection of the measurement event.
- the present invention proposes to proactively adapt the power of the small cell users which are likely to have a handover towards the macro cell soon.
- a forthcoming handover event towards a neighboring macro cell is anticipated for a particular UE served by the small cell, and the uplink transmit power level of the UE in the small cell is gradually increased in such a way that an uplink transmit power target is in force when the handover towards the macro cell eventually takes place.
- the downlink receive power/quality level in the small cell at which a handover condition towards the macro cell is fulfilled for a particular UE is known by means of UE measurement reports.
- This downlink receive power/quality level varies across UEs and from one handover location to another.
- This reference threshold can be used in combination with an anticipation offset to anticipate an upcoming handover event and to start increasing the UE transmit power before the actual handover occurrence.
- the anticipation offset and the transmit power target are designed so as to reduce the uplink transmit power disruption upon handover execution, and to enable the other small cell user(s) to gradually adapt their uplink transmit power level to cope with this interference increase and to maintain the required SNIR and hence the call quality.
- the transmit power target value is determined so as to compensate for an estimate of the downlink path loss incurred by the UE within the macro cell upon handover execution.
- the transmit power target can be determined by measuring the receive signal strength of a reference pilot signal broadcast within the macro cell at a nominal downlink transmit power.
- This pilot signal can be measured by the UE upon detection of the handover condition, thereby yielding a rather accurate measure of the downlink path loss when handover towards the macro cell takes place, and thus a rather accurate uplink transmit power target that will avoid any substantial uplink transmit power disruption when the UE eventually switches to the macro cell.
- the pilot signal can be directly measured by the small base station operating the small cell, which is a sub-optimal yet still advantageous solution.
- the transmit power increase is a function of a current receive strength or quality level for the mobile station in the small cell.
- the transmit power increase can be a linear increase or a polynomial/exponential increase from an initial uplink transmit power level up to the uplink transmit power target that is to be achieved.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a UMTS mobile network 1 making use of WCDMA radio access technology.
- a UE 11 roams through the mobile network 1.
- Macro base stations 21 are provided operating respective macro cells. A number of such base stations are provided, which are distributed geographically in order to provide a wide area of coverage to the UE 11.
- radio communication may be established with the corresponding base station operating the particular macro cell over an associated radio link conforming to the Uu communication interface.
- fig. 1 illustrates a small subset of the total number of UEs and base stations that may be present in a typical mobile communication system.
- An RNC 31 controls the operation of the base stations 22 and of the UE 11 in order to efficiently manage the wireless communication network 10.
- the RNC 31 communicates with the base stations over a backhaul communication link conforming to the Iub communication interface, and further with the UE 11 via their respective radio link.
- the RNC 31 is operable to communicate with a Core Network (CN) 41, and to route traffic via circuit-switched and packet-switched networks.
- CN Core Network
- MSC Mobile Switching Center
- the MSC then communicates with a circuit-switched network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
- PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
- the RNC 31 communicates with a Serving General packet radio service Support Node (SGSN, not shown) over a communication link conforming to Iu-PS communication interface.
- the SGSN is further coupled to a Gateway General packet radio service Support Node (GGSN, not shown), which communicates with a packet-switch network, such as the Internet.
- GGSN Gateway General packet radio service Support Node
- femto base stations 22 each of which operates a femto cell in the vicinity of a building within which the associated femto base station is installed.
- the femto cells provide local communication coverage for a user in the vicinity of those buildings.
- the femto base stations 22 typically utilize a broadband Internet connection (e.g., xDSL, cable) for traffic backhauling.
- the femto base stations 22 communicate with a femto cell gateway 32 (FGW) via a backhaul communication link conforming to the Iuh communication interface.
- FGW femto cell gateway 32
- the femto cell gateway 32 sits between the femto base stations 22 and the CN 31, and performs the necessary translations to ensure the femto base stations 22 appear as a RNC to the MSC.
- the femto base stations 22 talk to the femto cell gateway 32, and the femto cell gateway 32 talks to the CN 31 (MSC for circuit-switched communications, SGSN for packet-switched communications).
- the femto cell gateway 32 comprises a security gateway that terminates large numbers of encrypted data connections from hundreds of thousands of femto base stations, and a signaling gateway which aggregates and validates the signaling traffic, authenticates each femto base stations and interfaces with the CN 31.
- the femto base stations 22 are low-power, low-cost, self organizing base stations that provide private or public mobile communication services in a residential or business environment.
- the femto base stations may be provided locally by customers for their own use, but are also a cost effective solution for operators to provide low-cost hot spot coverage and rural coverage.
- the transmission power of the femto base station is relatively low in order to restrict the coverage area of the femto cell to a range of tens of meters or less.
- the femto base stations have extensive auto-configuration and self-optimization capability to enable a simple plug-and-play deployment. As such, they are designed to automatically integrate themselves into an existing macro cellular wireless network.
- the femto base stations contain some functionalities traditionally provided by the RNC, such as the Radio Resource control (RRC) functions.
- RRC Radio Resource control
- Pico, metro or micro base stations may be provided to operate pico, metro or micro cells.
- Pico, metro or micro cells are typically provided by network operators in areas of high traffic or poor coverage.
- a femto base station 100 configured to operate a femto cell, and comprising a transmit power controller as per the present invention.
- the femto base station 100 comprises the following functional blocks:
- the network termination unit 130 is coupled to the digital base-band unit 111; the digital base-band unit 111 is coupled to the analog band-pass unit 112; the analog band-pass unit 112 is coupled to an external or internal antenna 120.
- the radio resource controller 140 and the transmit power controller 150 are coupled to the transceiver 110.
- the transmit power controller 150 is further coupled to the radio resource controller 140.
- the transceiver 110 is configured to establish and operate radio communication channels with UEs under control of the radio resource controller 140.
- the digital base-band unit 111 is for digitally processing the received and transmit data symbols.
- the digital base-band unit 111 implements the necessary protocol suites for issuing, terminating or relaying signaling packets (or control packets), and for relaying user data traffic.
- the analog band-pass unit 112 is for modulating, amplifying and shaping the transmit signal that ultimately feds the antenna 120, and for filtering, amplifying with as little noise as possible and demodulating the received signal from the antenna 120.
- the analog band-pass 112 unit can be merged with the digital base-band unit 111 into one single unit.
- the network termination unit 130 accommodates the appropriate Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical transport (PHY) layers for connecting through a broadband connection to a femto cell gateway, as well as some frame dispatching logic for routing the incoming/outgoing frames towards the appropriate Input/output (I/O) ports.
- MAC Medium Access Control
- PHY Physical transport
- the radio resource controller 140 is for assigning and managing downlink and uplink radio resources used by the transceivers 110 and the respective UEs for radio communication over the air interface, that is to say a set of code and/or frequency resources assigned to the respective radio bearers for transport of user traffic.
- the radio resource controller 140 further configures the active UEs with a measurement policy (see “meas_policy(UEX)" in fig. 2 ).
- the UEs are configured to periodically report measurements of the serving and neighboring cells (see “meas_report(UEX)” in fig. 2 ).
- the measurement report typically comprises Ec/No measurements performed on the Primary Common PIlot CHannel (P-CPICH) of the serving and neighboring cells.
- Ec/No stands for the received energy per chip divided by the power density in the band, and is equal to the Received Signal Code Power (RSCP) measurements, meaning the received power on one code measured on the P-CPICH of the serving or neighboring cell, divided by the received wide band power, including thermal noise and noise generated in the receiver, within the bandwidth defined by the receiver pulse shaping filter.
- RSCP Received Signal Code Power
- the radio resource controller 140 compares the periodic measurement reports with the respective measurement event thresholds so as to detect that a particular neighboring cell is fulfilling a particular handover condition.
- a particular handover condition comprises a positive offset value OFF1, a Time-To-Trigger (TTT) value TTT1, and possibly an hysteresis value HYS1.
- the handover condition is fulfilled by a particular neighboring cell if the receive strength or quality of a reference signal from that neighboring cell is measured as being persistently better than the receive strength or quality of a reference signal from the current serving cell by the positive offset amount OFF1 and for TTT1 seconds.
- the hysteresis HYS1 prevents excessive toggling between the entering and leaving handover condition.
- the radio resource controller 140 Upon fulfillment by a particular UE of a handover condition for a particular target cell, the radio resource controller 140 makes a handover decision and initiates the necessary signaling exchanges with the target RNC via the femto cell gateway for carrying out a soft or hard handover of the particular UE from the femto cell towards the target cell.
- the radio resource controller 140 is further configured to determine a reference signal strength or quality threshold HOT for outbound handovers within the femto cell.
- the reference threshold HOT is determined by averaging the receive signal strength or quality levels as reported by the UEs when a handover condition for an outbound handover is met by the UEs.
- the reference threshold HOT together with the periodic measurements as reported by the active UEs, are forwarded to the transmit power controller 150 for further handling (see “HOT” and "meas_report(UEX)" in fig. 2 ).
- the transmit power controller 150 is for controlling the uplink transmit power of the active UEs (see “TPC_cmd(UEX)" in fig. 2 ).
- the transmit power controller 150 implements the aforementioned closed-loop power control mechanism designed for maintaining the SNIR at a certain target SNIR.
- the transmit power controller 150 is further configured to keep track of the current receive signal strength or quality level in the femto cell for the active UEs, and to detect that the current receive signal strength or quality level of a particular UE in the femto cell is past an handover anticipation threshold HOA, which is the sum of the reference threshold HOT supplied by the radio resource controller 140 and a positive anticipation offset OFF2, meaning that a handover towards a target cell is likely to take place in the near-future.
- HOA handover anticipation threshold
- the transmit power controller 150 enters an ad-hoc uplink power control regime for that particular UE, and issues TPC commands to that particular UE so as a certain uplink transmit power target P_target is met when the handover eventually takes place.
- the ad-hoc uplink power control regime will be further elucidated with regard to fig. 5 .
- the uplink transmit power target P_target is determined according to an estimate of the downlink path loss the particular UE is expected to incur within the target cell upon handover execution.
- P_target can be estimated from UE measurements of the target cell, or from own measurements carried out by the femto base station 100 itself. This is done similar to the power initialization in the open loop power control procedure.
- the transmit power controller 150 is further configured to monitor the actual execution of an handover for a particular UE once the ad-hoc uplink power control regime is in force for that particular UE. Purposely, the transmit power controller 150 is supplied with a handover notification message from the radio resource controller 140 whenever a handover procedure completes for a particular UE, or alternatively whenever a handover procedure is initiated for a particular UE (see "HO_ind(UEX)" in fig. 2 ). The transmit power controller 150 triggers a supervision timer THO once the anticipation threshold HOA is passed for a particular UE, and stops the supervision timer THO when the handover procedure completes for that particular UE, or alternatively when the handover procedure starts for that particular UE. If the supervision timer THO expires then no handover took place for that particular UE, and the legacy closed-loop power control mechanism is restored.
- the cells C1 and C2 may share the same frequency band, in which case soft or hard handovers are possible between the cells C1 and C2, or may be assigned non-overlapping frequency bands, in which case only hard handovers are allowed.
- a UE UEX establishes a communication session at position a, within the coverage area of the femto cell A.
- the UE UEX next moves towards position c while the communication session is on-going.
- the received pilot signal from macro cell C2 is stronger than the received pilot signal from femto cell C1. Provided that the difference between the two received signals' strength is beyond some configured handover margin and stays there for a minimum of a TTT period, an outbound handover is triggered for handing over the on-going session towards the macro cell C2.
- the handover occurs.
- the femto base station BS1 is capable of estimating an average Ec/No level at which handovers are typically performed. This is denoted by a handover reference threshold HOT.
- the femto base station BS1 can calculate the moving average of HOT based on the handover observations over time: HOT n ⁇ HOT n ⁇ 1 + ⁇ HOT n ⁇ HOT n ⁇ 1 wherein HOT(n) denotes the nth handover observation, and ⁇ is an averaging coefficient (0 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 1), where higher ⁇ values overwrites the older observations faster.
- the femto base station BS1 can be prepared to face a likely handover.
- the femto base station BS1 monitors the received Ec/No of the active UEs. Once the value falls below the anticipation threshold value HOA, the femto base station BS1 records the current transmit power of the UE as P_start, and starts commanding the UE to increase its transmit power level so that, by the time of the hand-over, the UE is already on an appropriate power level P_target to communicate to the remote macro base station BS2. Since the femto base station BS1 can estimate the typical or average value of Ec/No at which handovers are performed, the threshold value HOA can be simply calculated by adding an anticipation offset value OFF2 to this value. Additionally, the target power level P_target does not need to be accurate as the finer power control mechanism after the handover (or the power initialization procedure using open loop power control in case of hard handover) will adjust any power offset.
- the femto base station BS1 starts to adapt the UE's transmit power appropriately.
- P_UL ⁇ Normal Power Control Regime if EC NO > HOA P target ⁇ P start OFF 2 ⁇ HOA ⁇ EC NO + P start if EC NO ⁇ HOA wherein P_UL denotes the uplink transmit power.
- This first option is plotted in fig. 5 as a plain line.
- MO denotes the Mapping Order (MO).
- the effective transmit power used by a UE in the ad-hoc power control regime is a staircase version of the plotted curves as the UE step-wise adjusts its transmit power upon receipt and interpretation of TPC commands from the base station(s), that is to say at specific time instances and at the specified power granularity.
- the solution works well with both hard and soft handovers.
- hard handovers the UE receives the power control commands only from the femto cell C1 and therefore the power is adapted in a desired way.
- soft handovers however, the UE receives the power control commands both from the macro cell C1 and the femto cell C2 but will consider the more conservative power control commands (the one resulting in lower transmit power), which is very likely to be the femto cell commands.
- the solution can be optionally extended to include a timer that is activated immediately after the received Ec/No of the UE falls below HOA threshold. If no handover occurs after a pre-defined time period T_handover, the power control operation can be set back to its normal procedure. Further, the received Ec/No at the time of expiration of the timer is recorded as LHOA. This will avoid UE to over-provision the transmit power if the handover does no occur within a certain time period (e.g., the case when the femto cell user gets close to the femto cell coverage border and does not move from there any further).
- the ad-hoc power control mechanism If the ad-hoc power control mechanism is cancelled when the received Ec/No of the UE is below HOA threshold due to expiration of the timer T_handover, it can be reactivated again if: EC NO ⁇ LHOA ⁇ RT wherein RT is a reactivation threshold.
- the algorithm is reactivated (after being canceled due to the timer expiration) if the received Ec/No of the UE drops further and falls bellow LHOA-RT.
- T_handover and RT parameters are design parameters that can be fine-tuned by the manufacturer.
- the term 'coupled' should not be interpreted as being restricted to direct connections only.
- the scope of the expression 'a device A coupled to a device B' should not be limited to devices or systems wherein an output of device A is directly connected to an input of device B, and/or vice-versa. It means that there exists a path between an output of A and an input of B, and/or vice-versa, which may be a path including other devices or means.
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- Procédé de contrôle de la puissance de transmission d'une station mobile (UEX) desservie par une petite cellule (C1), le procédé comprenant la détection d'un événement de mesure anticipant la réalisation prochaine d'une condition de transfert intercellulaire vers une macrocellule voisine (C2) par la station mobile, et l'augmentation progressive consécutive du niveau de la puissance de transmission de la station mobile de façon à atteindre une puissance de transmission cible (P_Target) lorsque la condition de transfert intercellulaire est finalement réalisée par la station mobile.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la condition de transfert intercellulaire est une condition selon laquelle la macrocellule est mesurée comme présentant un meilleur décalage que la petite cellule d'une première valeur de décalage de transfert intercellulaire positif (OFF1), produisant ainsi un niveau de signal de réception de référence ou seuil de qualité (HOT) dans la petite cellule pour le transfert intercellulaire vers la macrocellule, et l'événement de mesure est un événement de mesure selon lequel un niveau de réception courant ou niveau de qualité (Ec/No) pour la station mobile dans la petite cellule a été mesuré comme étant inférieur à un seuil d'anticipation du transfert intercellulaire (HOA) qui est la somme du niveau de signal de réception de référence ou seuil de qualité et d'un deuxième décalage d'anticipation positif (OFF2).
- Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel la puissance de transmission cible est destinée à compenser un affaiblissement estimé le long du conduit de la liaison descendante pour la station mobile dans la macrocellule.
- Procédé selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la puissance de transmission cible est déterminée en mesurant le niveau de réception d'un signal pilote de référence diffusé dans la macrocellule avec une puissance de transmission nominale sur la liaison descendante.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans lequel l'augmentation progressive de la puissance de transmission est une fonction décroissante monotone d'un niveau de réception courant ou niveau de qualité (Ec/No) pour la station mobile dans la petite cellule.
- Procédé selon la revendication 5, dans lequel l'augmentation progressive de la puissance de transmission correspond à une augmentation de puissance linéaire (MO = 1) à partir d'une puissance de transmission initiale (P_Start) utilisée par la station mobile dans la petite cellule lorsque l'événement de mesure est détecté jusqu'à la puissance de transmission cible.
- Procédé selon la revendication 5, dans lequel l'augmentation progressive de la puissance de transmission correspond à une augmentation de puissance polynomiale du deuxième ordre ou d'un ordre supérieur (MO > 1) à partir d'une puissance de transmission initiale (P_Start) utilisée par la station mobile dans la petite cellule lorsque l'événement de mesure est détecté jusqu'à la puissance de transmission cible.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, comprenant en outre l'étape de retrait de l'augmentation du niveau de puissance de transmission pour la station mobile si aucun transfert intercellulaire vers la macrocellule n'a été réalisé pour la station mobile pendant un délai de confirmation du transfert intercellulaire déclenché à la détection de l'événement de mesure.
- Contrôleur de puissance de transmission (150) destiné à contrôler la puissance de transmission d'une station mobile (UEX) desservie par une petite cellule (C1), et configuré pour détecter un événement de mesure anticipant la réalisation prochaine d'une condition de transfert intercellulaire vers une macrocellule voisine (C2) par la station mobile, et pour augmenter ensuite progressivement le niveau de la puissance de transmission de la station mobile de façon à atteindre une puissance de transmission cible (P_Target) lorsque la condition de transfert intercellulaire est finalement réalisée par la station mobile.
- Point d'accès radio (100) comprenant un contrôleur de puissance de transmission (150) selon la revendication 9, et configuré pour exploiter la petite cellule.
- Point d'accès radio (100) selon la revendication 10, le point d'accès radio étant une station de base femto.
- Point d'accès radio (100) selon la revendication 10, le point d'accès radio étant une station de base pico, metro ou micro.
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